Plants ca. 18 cm tall, nearly acaulescent, caespitose, vegetative parts covered with medifixed, appressed, white hairs 0.3-1 mm. Stems branched at base, parts of current year, if developed, up to 0.5 cm, densely hairy. Leaves of sterile shoots 1-2 cm; stipules ca. 2 mm, densely hairy; petiole 0.5-1 cm, with 1 or 2 pairs of small leaflets 2-3 mm. Leaves of flowering shoots 3-7 cm; petiole 1-2 cm, like rachis densely hairy; leaflets in (2 or)3 or 4 pairs, linear, 10-15 × 1-1.5 mm, both surfaces ± densely hairy, apex acute. Racemes subumbellate, 3-7-flowered; peduncle 5-14 cm, loosely to rather densely white hairy; bracts 1-2 mm, sparsely furnished with mostly basifixed white and black hairs. Calyx ca. 10 mm, loosely to rather densely covered with medifixed, appressed, white hairs 0.5-1 mm and mostly slightly shorter black hairs; teeth 2.2-3 mm. Petals probably yellow; standard elliptic, 15-17 × 6-7 mm, apex emarginate; wings ca. 15 mm, limbs deeply incised; keel ca. 12 mm. Ovary with a stipe ca. 2 mm, linear, white hairy. Legumes unknown.
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